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Accused hit wife
End. Of an adventure
16 times with
hatchet: Crown
Stobbe had 5.5 hours to commit the crime: Crown theory Case
will rely on circumstantial evidence, testimony of 76 witnesses
Mark Stobbe became so enraged happy family falling apart. backyard, hit her repeatedly on the
after an argument with his wife, Life was good in Regina, where head with a hatchet, then dragged
he hit her with a hatchet 16 times, neighbours reported seeing the her to the garage, put her in a car
drove her body to a parking lot and family playing together and laugh- and drove to a parking lot to make
returned home on bicycle to report ing. But after the family moved to it appear that she had been robbed.
her missing, a Crown attorney said St. Andrews, a rural suburb north Stobbe returned to the house by
Monday. of Winnipeg, in early 2000, it was bicycle and called the RCMP to
Stobbe, who had worked as an a different story. report his wife missing, Dawson Winnipeg’s Don Starkell, perhaps best known
adviser to former Saskatchewan Stobbe had taken a job with the said. He told them Rowbotham had for two astonishing paddling journeys
premier Roy Romanow before tak- Manitoba government and was gone out grocery shopping in the that took him to the Amazon
ing a job with the Manitoba gov- working long hours, Dawson said. evening and he had fallen asleep, and to the Arctic, has died.
ernment, committed a “brutal The home was in need of repairs, only to wake up after midnight and See story on page 2.
assault” on his wife in the back- there were no other children for find her still gone.
yard of their sprawling rural home, the family’s kids to play with and, The Crown will point to what it
Crown attorney Wendy Dawson in the weeks before her death, says are inconsistencies in what
told court. Rowbotham told her sister that the Stobbe told police, friends and rel-
Stobbe has pleaded not guilty marriage was troubled. atives in the following days. He told
to second-degree murder in the “She said, ‘I don’t know if I can some people he had fallen asleep
death of his wife, Beverly Row- do this anymore,’ or words to that on the couch and woke up at 1:30
botham, whose body was found in effect,” Dawson told the jury. a.m., but told others he had fallen
the family sedan in October 2000. The Crown’s theory, based in asleep in one of his children’s beds IAN MCCAUSLAND/FOR METRO
In her opening statement, Daw- part on forensic evidence, is that and woke up at 2:30 a.m., Dawson Paddling to the beyond
son painted a portrait of a once- Stobbe attacked his wife in their said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
1
Committee
Crime. Scene
passes
along bid
for arts
funding
The Winnipeg Arts Council
came to a city committee
Monday looking for
additional funding, and al-
though it didn’t leave with
news
what it wanted, its plan to
double its funding over the
next eight years is moving
forward.
The council asked for
$500,000, plus the slightly
Police tape is seen wrapped around an apartment building in the 400 block of Maryland Monday afternoon after reports of a more than $4 million it is
sudden death. A stretcher was taken into the building through the back entrance on McGee Street, as investigators took set to receive this year.
pictures inside a suite on the south side of the building. Police did not release any information by press deadline. While the city’s protec-
tion and community servic-
SHANE GIBSON/METRO es committee voted in
Police investigate sudden death on Maryland favour of the motion to in-
crease funding over the
coming years, it stopped
short of approving the
From nuclear terrorism to
personal theft, Indy battens Snowmobile ban passed money requested for this
down hatches for Super Bowl. year.
Scan code for story. “Some of the things they
wanted to do with the
1 money were not under our
Download the free by city committee control, and wouldn’t be al-
ScanLife app with lowed,” explained Coun.
your smartphone Ross Eadie after the vote.
at 2dscan.com The motion now moves
2 on to EPC. SHANE GIBSON
Use your
smartphone to Number of delegations speak against proposed ban
scan 2D barcodes Snowmobile facts Fund for
Motion still needs EPC and council approval
in Metro
17,000 family
3
The codes will
stems from the death of ing the original motion The num-
direct your mobile SHANE growing
browser to GIBSON Ken Stammers, who was recommended by police ber of snowmobilers liv-
m.metronews.ca [email protected] hit and killed by a snow- had a section that would ing in Winnipeg.
mobile while walking his have allowed staging areas
35,000
A City of Winnipeg com- dog in a field near his — and even legal trails — While friends, family and
On the web at mittee has given the go- home in Transcona last built within the city while The mourners packed
metronews.ca ahead for an all-out ban January. still implementing the number of snowmobil- Winnipeg’s Grand Mosque
on the use of snowmobiles Although police said ban immediately. ers living in Manitoba. Monday night to remember
and ATVs on public land they could begin imple- “I think you just have to five killed in a fire last
2,242
within Winnipeg, starting menting the new ban im- ban it, and if community week, a fund for the fami-
in 2014. mediately, the committee groups want to come and The average ly’s funerals is closer to its
At a meeting of the changed the motion, de- make a proposal to later number of km a single goal. Hamid Farooq lost his
city’s protection and com- laying it by two years to establish a staging area or snowmobiler rides per mother, wife and three
munity services commit- give the city an opportuni- trail … they could negoti- year in Manitoba daughters in a house fire
tee on Monday that saw ty to work towards creat- ate that,” he said follow- last Tuesday. About $26,000
90
several snowmobilers ing staging areas that ing the meeting. “To me it is needed to fly the bodies
speak against the ban, would tie into Snoman just didn’t make sense.” The percentage of back to Pakistan for burial.
councilors voted 3-1 in trails outside the city lim- The motion still needs accidents that occur off A trust fund set up at
Twitter’s awful favour of the police-rec- its. EPC and full council ap- groomed trails in Mani- Assiniboine Credit Union
ommended plan. Coun. Ross Eadie was proval before becoming toba. currently sits at $18,000.
recruitment
The idea for the ban the lone vote against, not- law. METRO
video wants
you and your
droll wit. Winnipeg adventurer, author Don Starkell dead at 79
Watch at
CONTRIBUTED
metronews.ca/ ELISHA DACEY with his son Dana by his dom. A flood in Winnipeg with Dana and his other
video @METRONEWS.CA side. He was 79. in 1948 put him in his son, Jeff. Starting from Win-
A Winnipeg man known Starkell was born in North Kildonan foster fami- nipeg in June of 1982, the
for his adventures in the Winnipeg on Dec. 7, 1932. ly’s canoe to get supplies. trio paddled 19,603 km to
Arctic and the Amazon and According to the Manitoba Two years later at age 17, he Belerm, Brazil.
his love of canoeing has Sports Hall of Fame, which was named the most out-
Follow us on died. he was inducted into in standing novice at Kildo- For a full version of
Twitter Don Starkell succumbed 2006, Starkell “began pad- nan Canoe Club in 1950.” this story, visit
@metrowinnipeg to cancer on Saturday. His dling out of necessity and Starkell was perhaps metronews.ca/
family said he died at home grew to love it for the free- best known for his journey winnipeg Don Starkell
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And the sax came back
EDUCATION funding will be used to
expand new programs.
Province All school divisions
will receive at least the
boosts same level of funding SEAN LEDWICH/METRO
The thief’s on the run Metro
they received last year,
school said Allan, and several story leads to return of instrument
divisions will see
funding increases of more than
2.2 per cent. SEAN The man “freaked right
Another $4 million LEDWICH out and took off” when told
Another $25 million will will go to help school di- @METRONEWS.CA police were coming, and
be added to public- visions begin reducing Metro reported Friday that within minutes police
school funding after an class sizes to 20 students. Dan Moroz’s saxophone walked in.
announcement made by “We’ve made reducing was stolen Wednesday from “I was like, ‘Ah man, you
the NDP government on class sizes to give our stu- a downtown coffee shop. guys just missed him,’”
Monday. dents more attention in The tale of its return be- Kolisnyk said.
Education Minister their early years a priori- gan at 10 p.m. Friday night Const. Natalie Aitken
Nancy Allan said the 2.2 ty,” said Allan. in the St. Regis Hotel. said police searched the
per cent in increased ELISHA DACEY Hotel security guard area, but did not find a sus-
Brett Kolisnyk overheard a pect.
CONTRIBUTED/RCMP Grow-op man talking about a stolen Kolisnyk, who volun-
sax for sale. teers with Downtown BIZ
“It sounded like the one and has applied to be a po-
busted in
in the Metro, so I was like, lice officer, said he recog-
‘How much do you want for nized the man from a
Dauphin
it?’” The man left the hotel surveillance photo.
to get the sax, thinking “He’s a well-known …
Kolisnyk might buy it for car thief, repeat offender,”
RCMP found 53 pot plants $200. Kolisnyk alleged. “I was
along with a quantity of Kolisnyk called police, working alone, otherwise I
drying marijuana and but before they showed, the would have detained him.”
growing equipment at a Flaming Trolley Dan Moroz and his sax, together again, man returned with the sax By Saturday night, Mo-
Police seized more than grow-op in Dauphin. A 54- performed Saturday with his band RasTamils at a fundraiser 20 minutes later. roz and his sax were back
four dozen pot plants. year-old man has been for the Winnipeg Folk Festival campground’s Castle Boys. There was then no doubt on stage, grateful to Kolis-
charged. METRO it was Moroz’s sax, he said. nyk for reuniting them.
Harper ditches the sweater
TRAGEDY male boarder were
discovered by a family
RCMP friend who had gone to vest as Parliament resumes
check on the house in
probes Porter Creek.
Firefighters called to
deaths the scene first entered
the house using breath-
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
ing apparatus, but later A winter parliamentary
Five people, including deemed it safe to go in session that many have
two school-age children, without the equipment. predicted will be a donny-
were found dead at a Sgt. Dan Rogers said brook began Monday with
home in a Whitehorse the deaths are not suspi- the gloves still on, and the
suburb Sunday, but the cious, but he would not only jersey askew being a
RCMP said they do not say whether air quality, powder-blue sweater vest.
suspect foul play. such as carbon monoxide “Very, very clearly, this
The bodies of the chil- poisoning, was to blame. government has taken off
dren, their parents and a THE CANADIAN PRESS the sweater vests,” said Pe-
ter Julian, the NDP fi-
nance critic.
Climate change
“They’ve taken off any
pretence of moderation
and a responsible ap-
drying up forests
proach to public policy.”
The Conservative gov-
ernment, which spent last
Research shows forests in fall clearing a number of
Alberta, Saskatchewan and Global warming long-standing legislative
Manitoba are drying up promises, wades into 2012
from drought caused by giving clear signals of a
climate change, while the The findings are bad news more far-reaching agenda.
eastern boreal forest is for those counting on With deep spending People make their way toward the Centre Block of Parliament Hill
holding its own. forests to suck more cuts, pension reform, a as business resumes following the winter break in Ottawa on Monday.
A paper published Mon- carbon out of the atmos- new copyright act,
day suggests the Prairie phere through growth changes to environmental nance Minister Jim Flaher- be betting that short mem- Deep cuts will rattle the
forests are already emitting than they emit as trees die assessment reviews, an ty rolling out the kind of ories and an improving public service and affect
more greenhouse gases and decompose. Data sug- end to the long-gun reg- tough, transformative economy — and perhaps a some government service
than they absorb, challeng- gests eastern forests emit istry and tough criminal budget that Liberal Paul reopened federal spending delivery, but it is Harper’s
ing assumptions that global about as much carbon justice reforms all on deck, Martin unveiled in 1995 in spigot come 2014 — will promise to tackle Old Age
warming would improve dioxide as they absorb, but the opposition will have Jean Chrétien’s first major- be enough to win over vot- Security that is raising the
growing conditions. that’s no longer the case in plenty to chirp about. ity government. ers angered by this year’s most ire.
THE CANADIAN PRESS the West. All signals point to Fi- The Conservatives may tough medicine. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
Girl-style bullying
TV bullies
Television shows us that behind the front, bullies are
mostly insecure poseurs, desperately in search of love
vs. boy-style bullying and their peers’ approval.
Lucy Van Pelt
The Doctor is in since 1952
The Peanuts’ resident psychiatrist
CONTRIBUTED is the meanest holder in football
history. She sells fake field goals
so well that even the kicker,
invariably Charlie Brown, thinks
the play is to get the ball through
the uprights. Lucy’s disdain for
beagle slobber is outweighed only by
her loathing for the Great Pumpkin. Weakness: Lucy’s
tough façade melts faster than an ice cube in a volcano
when she’s around strapping piano man Schroeder.
Sue Sylvester
Rocking tracksuits since 2009
Whether she’s conspiring to take
down the glee club by having
one of her henchman exchange
their plane tickets to New York
for a flight to Libya, or simply
mocking the latest addition to
Will Schuester’s vast vest collection,
Sue’s acerbic wit and deadpan delivery
are the bane of McKinley High. Weakness: Sue is prone to
bouts of kindness triggered by memories of her late sister
Jean, who was born with Down syndrome.
Nelson Muntz
Haw-hawing since 1990
Springfield Element ary’s crown
Mean Girls’ Regina George (Rachel McAdams), left, is a master of manipulation when it comes to social bullying, while prince of doling out wedgies and
The Karate Kid’s Dre Parker (Jaden Smith), is physically bullied by his tormentors, who possess strong kung fu skills. playg round poundings, Muntz
and his goons often make
Millhouse, Martin and even Bart
The bullying may not always look the same, but both boys and girls bully cower in his presence. Muntz does-
n’t constrict his acts of intimidation
— from name-calling to pushing, shoving and rumour mongering
to the student body, often turning his
wrath toward adults and authority figures like Principal
Singh said. Skinner. Weakness: Nelson’s crush on Lisa and his desire for
SOTREFPOHRADNIE Differences Dating bullying Craig said that we often acceptance can overpower his bullying compulsion.
[email protected] make the mistake of over-
FOR METRO CANADA 18% of boys and 12% of Girls and boys show simi- looking social bullying be- Simon Cowell
girls in Canada report hav- lar levels of physical or so- cause it’s harder to detect Crushing aspiring singers’ dreams
since 2001
Everyone knows that girls ing been a bully 2 or more cial aggression in the con- and address than physical
pass mean notes and use times in previous months. text of adolescent dating. bullying. From the U.K.’s Pop Idol to
the silent treatment when Boys are more likely to Girls tend to report using With social bullying, American Idol to The X-Factor,
they bully, while for boys, bully than girls, across all slightly more physical “it’s difficult to get witness- the smug talent spotter is at his
it’s as simple as a punch in age groups, in 40 countries aggression than boys did. es to corroborate that sto- best in the early rounds of sing-
the face, right? Not quite. studied. Indirect aggress ion toward ry,” said Rob Frenette, ing competition shows, when he
The facts about girl and Boys tend to use physical a romantic partner, like ig- executive director and co- gets to eviscerate hapless tone-
boy bullying might surprise aggression and sexual noring and excluding, founder of Bullying Cana- deaf contestants. Giving the other
you. harassment more is reported more fre- da. Witnesses often fear judges grief for their misguided
According to statistics than girls. quently than physi- retaliation, he said. appraisals is a Cowell trademark, and he’s got picking on
from PREVNet, a national Girls may be more cal aggression, but Whether bullying is so- Paula Abdul down to a science. Weakness: While Cowell’s
network against bullying, likely to experi ence seems to occur cial or physical and perpe- incisive critiques are often spot on, the man in the black
there are more similarities victimization. more often in later trated by boys or girls, V-neck can often fall under the spell of a beautiful woman
than differences between Statistics from adolescence. bystanders play a critical for whom his ears will temporarily become more forgiving.
boys and girls when they PREVNet Pepler et al. (2006) role. Singh said children
bully. who bully can be just as in- MIKE DOJC
FOR METRO CANADA
Boys tend to bully more Queen’s University and sci- are more likely to do the di- fluenced by their peers as
frequently and more physi- en ti fic co-director of PRE- rect face-to-face kinds of those who are being bul-
cally than girls, but when it VNet. things, whereas girls are lied, so bystanders should
comes to social bullying, “That type of bullying is more likely to be more make it known that they
boys and girls bully at about hurting relation- anonymous or indirect,” won’t tolerate the bullying. Wednesday in Metro: Cyber bullying
about the same levels. How- ships, which are really cen- she said. Singh said when peers
ever, that social bullying tral to girls’ identity,” Craig Male social bullying intervene, bullying often In the final installment of our three-part series:
may look different between explained. Peer-group bully- might look a little different, stops immediately.
the genders. ing can also make girls who agreed Gurvinder Singh, an Has Facebook allowed bullying to continue beyond the
While boys who bully are bullied less likely to re- adviser for the Canadian school bell?
are sometimes not part of port and retaliate because Red Cross on international What’s more The stay-forever online world means not just
the in-crowd, girls who they want to regain accept- violence prevention. hurtful — social victims could be haunted by past torments.
bully are often powerful ance. “It might be on the alienation or Tips on making amends.
in their peer groups, “Boys are not as likely to sports field playing football physical bullying? We hear from you: Readers share their views
said Wendy Craig, a psy- have that popularity com- ... but a lot of the same dy- Tweet us on bullying.
chology professor at ponent,” said Craig. “They namics are occurring,” @metrowinnipeg
business
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Tech firms Canada will avoid
Washington. Protest
housing crash: BMO
battle phishing
Canada will likely avoid that the national housing
a crash or serious correc- market appears somewhat
Many of the biggest companies tion in its “somewhat pricey, but is far removed
pricey” housing market, from a bubble,” said econ-
already using new DMARC system
with the possible omists Sherry Cooper and
15% exception of Vancouver, Sal Guatieri in the report
Google, Facebook and oth- says a new paper from the released Monday.
er big tech companies are Bank of Montreal. Even Toronto’s hot con-
jointly designing a system The analysis by BMO do market — one of the
for combating email scams economists suggests subjects of many of the
known as phishing. According to Google, alarms about Canada’s warnings — is more likely
Such scams try to trick about 15 per cent of housing market by inter- to cool rather than
people into giving away non-spam messages in national observers, from collapse, BMO said, noting
passwords and other Gmail come from the International that a sharp decline in
personal information by domains that are Monetary Fund to The construction for rental
sending emails that look as protected by DMARC. Economist magazine, are units is stimulating
if they come from a legiti- exaggerated or simplistic. demand for condos.
mate bank, retailer or oth- combat spam. Those tech- “The main takeaway is THE CANADIAN PRESS
er business. niques are designed to veri-
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isting techniques used to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS economic inequality and other issues.
Monti looks to cut Italian Target Canada seeking Expansion in the works
lawmakers’ salaries independent pharmacists for Ottawa burger chain
Prime Minister Mario Monti Monti sent a decree to the Target Canada will look for Target’s arrival will in- An Ottawa-based hamburg- including seven restaurants
is asking Italian lawmakers Chamber of Deputies and independent pharmacists crease competition with er chain is looking to open in the Ottawa area.
to take a salary cut as part the Senate that would cap to own and operate phar- Canadian pharmacy chains 50 new restaurants across Chief executive Andy
of a broader effort to trim salaries for members of macies in its stores under a such as Jean Coutu and Canada over the next five O’Brien says the company
the privileges of the coun- both houses of the Italian franchise model when it Shoppers Drug Mart, which years. hopes to expand with a mix
try’s political elite. parliament — who are opens its doors next year, are also trying to lure inde- The Works Gourmet of franchise and corporate-
The government said in a among the best-paid in Eu- the U.S. discount retailer pendent pharmacists. Burger Bistro currently has owned locations across
statement Monday that rope.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS said. THE CANADIAN PRESS 11 locations across Ontario Canada.THE CANADIAN PRESS
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TAKING A PAGE
Register at Local tweets
metropolitanpanel.ca @Dj_Drux:Its great to have
OUT OF TEEN and take the quick poll @Winnipeg six friends help u move! But
Gordo: now that’s six friends I gotta
Have you been following the NDP Investors Group help :p
Field is bringing @Syncwinnipeg:R.I.P. Don
FANTASIES leadership race?
a new meaning to Starkell, the man who pad-
Unfinished Business for the dled from Winnipeg to the
76% 15% #Bombers. They should start Amazon. His story was the
NDP LEADERSHIP IT’S STILL TOO EARLY
SHE SAYS ... I got a pimple last week. An RACE? FOR ME TO TUNE IN. the season at Canad Inns. first to introduce me to the
embarrassing middle-of-the- #CFL Amazon as a kid.
face kind of situation. The @ShannonVanRaes:If you’re @Samfeal: you know you go
type of blemish that would one of the impatient folks, to the dog park too much
JESSICA NAPIER be the subject of an entire too lazy to dive the extra when you drive past and
METRO subplot on a sitcom in the half block to Cordyon and recognize half the dogs ... &
early 1990s. I haven’t had a proper use my alley - slow down. know their names #puppies
pubescent breakout in a few years but Tree, fence hit already @WinnipegGordo: Great
my recent dermatological issues seem @dvandewalle: what are the hire by the #Bombers for
appropriate given the fact that I’ve been chances my Dentist will their new OC. And to think
spending a lot of my leisure time think- 9% mind my eating egg salad people were saying all the
ing about teenagers (no, not like that). OF COURSE. THEY’RE THE and peanut butter cups for best candidates were
Unless you were one of those geneti- OFFICIAL OPPOSITION. lunch? already hired. #CFL
cally blessed wunderkinds that peaked in high school,
your teenage years were probably the most awkward
period of your life. And yet, despite all the terrible re- AUTOSTADT / SOLENT
alities of adolescence — the acne, the unrequited Daily Zoom
crushes, the cliquey Mean Girls — we seem completely
obsessed with capturing every single moment of this
unfortunate phase and putting it on television. VVaalleett
I hate to admit it, but I
know I’m not the only 20-
“From Harry
something who finds
Potter to shows like My Super ppaarrkkiinngg,,
Twilight to Sweet Sixteen and Teen
Mom to be equal parts
Gossip Girl, more
horrific train wreck and
and more well- totally engrossing must- GGeerrmmaann
read grownups see TV.
And this isn’t just an
are slipping off
MTV phenomenon. When
book jackets and done well, compelling ssttyyllee
covertly teen-centric shows like De-
skimming grassi (in all its
incarnations) can
hardbacks
transcend their target de-
plucked from the mographic and captivate a
shelves of the much wider, older
audience. Coming-of-age
Young Adult
kids and their misguided
section.” life choices are television
gold, but they’re even bet-
ter off-screen.
From Harry Potter to Twilight to Gossip Girl, more
and more well-read grownups are slipping off book
jackets and covertly skimming hardbacks plucked
from the shelves of the Young Adult section. The
Hunger Games, that dystopian world-meets-teen-angst
trilogy that everyone keeps talking about, has spent
over 100 consecutive weeks and counting on the New Robotic car silo 1.5 Stacking cars
York Times bestseller list and it’s not just babysitting parks your ride Weird carparks for customers
money keeping it there.
I know plenty of smart and successful people in WOLFSBURG, GERMANY. HOW IT WORKS. New cars ar-
their 20s and 30s who spend hours dissecting novels Don’t bother getting your Umihotaru, Tokyo: rive from the production
geared toward the 13- to 17-year-old set — devouring car out of the parking metres per second – This rest/parking area is an facility on robotic skids
these addictive page-turners at rapid speed (not a diffi- complex — this robotic the speed the cars tra- artificial island that joins a that transport them
cult task when you’re reading size-16 font) and using building does it for you! vel when lifted up into bridge and tunnel. through a 700-metre
hushed voices to postulate over the predictable love Car buyers can pick up the towers. Every day Michigan Theater, Detroit: underground system of
triangles. their new ride from this some 600 cars are pic- Once a concert hall: Chan- tunnels.
We all deserve a break from adulthood every once futuristic garage. The two ked up from the two deliers gone, but ornate After they reach the sto-
in a while. Indulging in teenage pursuits, whether in 20-storey CarTowers have CarTowers by their plaster ceiling remains. rage silos, they are hoisted
sexy sci-fi fantasy lands or all-too-real reality shows, been called the new owners, making it Parkeringsbåt, up to a shelf where they
provides a nice distraction from our real-life responsi- “landmark” of Autostadt, a the world’s largest ve- Gothenburg, Sweden: are kept until picked up
bilities. However, when I find myself swooning out theme park inside Volks- hicle delivery centre. Floating parking boat dips by the customer, usually
loud over a barely legal actor playing a teenage were- wagen’s main car factory below waterline when full. within 24 hours.
wolf, I know that maybe it’s time to grow up. complex. MWN MWN
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
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Science fiction
Tune in
or fact?
For more information on
the Great Digital Film
Festival, visit
cineplex.com/Events.
Catch InnerSPACE every
Monday through Friday at
6 p.m. ET on SPACE.
Metro, SPACE and Cineplex have teamed up to present the Great Digital Film scene
Festival starting Friday and running through Feb. 9. We asked InnerSPACE
host Ajay Fry to take a look at the technology in sci-fi films to see how
close they are to being reality
Scene in brief
ABBA fans will soon
be saying “Thank
you for the music”
again with the
release of a new
track on a special
edition of the ’70s
pop group’s The Vis-
Back to itors album. The al-
The Terminator (1984) the Future RoboCop (1987) bum, including a
(1985) new track From a
In 1984, James Cameron’s The Terminator terri- Set in the near future, 1987’s RoboCop features Twinkling Star to a
fied audiences with the introduction of an un- In late 2010, the Internet was abuzz over a pho- a cyborg protagonist who takes on Detroit’s fes- Passing Angel, is the
stoppable Cyborg killing machine from the to of a ‘time traveller.’ It was actually a frame tering criminal underbelly. While we’ve still got first official new re-
future. Now, almost 30 years later, we don’t grab from a 1928 film purportedly featuring some time to wait for robotically-enhanced lease by the Swedish
have any cyborg killing machines (yet!), but hu- someone using what appeared to be a beat cops, in recent years police have started group in 18 years.
manoid robots are walking upright, learning cellphone. If you could travel to the past, why using robotic surrogates in dangerous Universal Music
and talking. One robot recently joked about not visit 1985 so you could make a cameo in situations. Last summer, a suspect’s trailer Group
plans to open a “zoo for humans” (I hope it was Back to the Future, the film that introduced us home was burned to the ground by a gas- spokeswoman Mia
a joke!). to the joys and pitfalls of Time Travel?! 1.21 grenade packing police robot in Tennessee. Segolsson said
Gigawatts! Friday that the spe-
cial edition of “The
Visitors” - originally
released in 1981 -
will be available in
stores from April 23.
ABBA — Agnetha
Faeltskog, Benny An-
dersson, Bjoern Ul-
vaeus and Anni-Frid
Lyngstad — split in
1982. The band has
never reunited.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jurassic Park Serenity
(1993) Shaun of the Dead (2004) (2005)
Jurassic Park asked audiences a hypothetical, Shaun of the Dead launched the Romantic Com-
ethical question: If we can clone dinosaurs, edy Zombie or ‘RomComZom’ sub-genre of film, Set 500 years in the future, this film follows the
should we? Now almost 20 years later we’re and the zombie craze has only grown in years crew of the spaceship Serenity as they sneak be-
soon going to need an answer. In 2009, since. In 2009, students at the University of Ot- tween numerous planets to protect a mysterious
scientists successfully cloned an extinct species tawa created a mathematical equation to deter- young woman named River. Since 2005, the num-
of mountain goats. And last year, dinosaur mine the survivability of a zombie uprising. I’d ber of confirmed exoplanets has nearly quadru- Journey to Oscars begins at the
theatre for Canadian makers of
feathers preserved in amber were discovered in fight to survive the onslaught if it meant I could pled to over 700, and scientists now suspect that Monsieur Lazhar.
Alberta. Morality aside, I’ll be first in line to see watch Shaun again on the big screen. each of the estimated 300 billion stars in our
real-life dinosaurs. galaxy may have at least 1.6 planets in orbit.
08 dish metronews.ca
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
From dating George J.Lo on marriage:
‘I don’t know’
Clooney to Steve-O?
With her divorce yet to
be finalized and her
relationship with
dancer Casper
Smart still in its in-
fancy, it might be a
Rumours swirling that Elisabetta Canalis and former Jackass star are an item bit soon for Jennifer
Lopez to think about
ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES tying the knot again
We heard the Elisabetta lent of moving to a good — but that didn’t stop
Canalis/Steve-O rumours a school district and buying Matt Lauer from
couple weeks ago, but we a minivan. asking, “Do you think
were willing to ignore Thing is though, Steve-O you’ll marry again?”
them. After all, what doesn’t look too bad these during Lopez’s visit to
would George Clooney’s days. the Today show.
recent ex be doing with He’s no longer putting “I don’t know. I
one of the Jackass guys? fishing hooks through his don’t know. I don’t
As it turns out, dating cheek and jumping into know. We’ll see.
him. shark-infested waters — I mean, I don’t
In a video from TMZ, this happened, and we all know,” Lopez
the Dancing with the Stars share some blame — and responded.
contestants are caught has been sober for a couple “It’s not time
leaving a salon together in years. He’s a vegan, and to think Jennifer Lopez
L.A. before escaping to judging from his anti-fur about that
Steve-O’s car. ad for PETA, has a pretty yet. It’s still
Not only is she dating cute vegan butt. fresh.”
Steve-O, she is demurely Wait — what is Steve-O METRO
declining to comment in doing with George
Elisabetta Canalis Steve-O
paparazzi central — the B- Clooney’s ex?
team Hollywood equiva- MONICA WEYMOUTH
STARTS Rumer
the house at the time, but
FRIDAY parties hard she has been hanging out
with her mom a lot.
with mom? “Rumer’s spent more
time with her mom in the
last few months than she
Further analysis of the 911 has in a while,” a source
call made after Demi says.
Moore went into In fact, at each instance
convulsions when she of Moore’s hard partying
“smoked something” sug- in the wake of her split
gests that her daughter from Ashton Kutcher —
Rumer Willis might have hitting up nightclubs in
Serenity FEBRUARY 3 - 9, 2012 been among the revellers Hollywood and poolside
RoboCop present, according to TMZ. resorts in the Caribbean —
Demi Moore
During the frantic call, Rumer has reportedly
Scarface
the man on the phone can been at her mom’s side,
Airplane! SILVERCITY POLO PARK CINEMAS be heard saying, “Hey, Ru, them in from here?” partying right along with
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Elton John’s ongoing me-
The Terminator dia fight with Madonna
Sixteen Candles continues.
During a Good Morning
The Big Lebowski
PICK UP America interview Mon-
Shaun of the Dead day, he was asked what ad-
FRIDAY’S METRO vice he had for her Super
Back to the Future
Bowl halftime perform-
Back to the Future 2 FOR THE FULL ance.
Back to the Future 3 “Make sure you lip sync
SCHEDULE!
good,” he responded.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
A good one, for sure.
Elton John
But it would have been a
little sharper if he wasn’t
promoting the Pepsi Super
Bowl commercial — that stars in with some random Elton, is what Madonna
VISIT CINEPLEX.COM/EVENTS FOR TICKETS AND FILM DETAILS. would be commercial, not X Factor contestant. eats for breakfast.
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wellness
TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
3
ISTOCK PHOTOS
life
Heels
A new study shows that taking a quick walk can help cut down the desires to hit the snacks.
Walk, don’t snack
The Journal of Ap-
plied Physiology
with Griffith Uni-
versity in
Taking a short stroll may stop those impulses to reach for a treat Chocolate Australia reported
that women who
wear short heels
CELIA versity of Exeter invited 78 ate on average half as leviates boredom. It may Chocolate is OK in moder- for long hours
MILNE chocolate fiends to come much chocolate as the oth- also serve as a distraction ation. everyday risk
[email protected] to a simulated work envi- ers, about 15 grams, com- from thoughts of snack- shortening their
ronment after abstaining pared to 28 grams. ing. Cocoa Dark chocolate, and strides and their
Bored at work? from eating chocolate for “Stress, fatigue and Eating chocolate is un- cocoa in particular, contain feet stayed in a
Stressed? two days. boredom typically cause healthy if it escalates — flavonoids, which may con- pointed position.
Mindlessly reaching for They gave all subjects people to automatically contributing to weight tribute to heart health. Women also risk
chocolate? some work to do. Before- snack to regulate mood,” gain, obesity and diabetes. Chocolate also contains a hammer toes,
Try going for a wee walk hand, half of the subjects Professor Hwajung Oh, “A 15-minute walk is a compound called bunions, dislocat-
instead. A new study in the had gone for a quick walk one of the authors of the small dose of physical ac- phenylethylamine (PEA), ed or sprained an-
U.K. has found that taking and the other half had study, told Metro. tivity that can be easily which enhances some kles, fractures,
a quick 15-minute walk rested. Chocolate goodies “Somehow, exercise im- achieved,” Ho says. “Long brain functions. But, as we and ligament
cuts down on chocolate were available to everyone pacts on mood-induced term, the results may con- know, chocolate also con- tears by constant-
consumption by 50 per in the study while they eating behaviour.” tribute to not only weight tains a lot of fat and sugar. ly wearing heels.
cent. worked. Those who had He surmised that exer- management, but also So enjoy, but only in small The risk is
Researchers at the Uni- exercised before working cise reduces stress and al- healthy eating behaviour.” quantities. increased when
occasional heel
wearers go out.
Best Health Minute
METRO
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BONNIE MUNDAY, stood up to science, based some 10 per cent of
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,
BEST HEALTH on a 2007 review of women and 30 per cent of
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Hermano’s lacks Latin soul
THE CANADIAN PRESS H/O
Turkey with Avocado
While some dishes are tasty, the service and presentation need work
SVJETLANA MLINAREVIC
LUNCH RUSH
SVJETLANA MLINAREVIC
[email protected]
I’m a firm be-
liever that
when you do
something
with love, it P1reparation: ature, about 10
shows. Apparently the love In a bowl, place sliced minutes. Strain cucum-
is waning at Hermano’s cucumbers. In a small bers, reserving juice.
Restaurant and Wine Bar. pot, combine vinegar, 2
While the restaurant is sugar, salt, bay leaf, Layer pickles, turkey
absolutely gorgeous — with allspice and chili and avocado and drizzle
vibrant colours and beauti- flakes. Bring to a boil with reserved pickling
ful photography — it lacked Chivito sandwich ($14). over high heat and juice. Serve with quinoa
love in its cuisine. pour over cucumber or brown rice.
From my grumpy wait- slices. Allow mixture THE CANADIAN PRESS/
ress to my thrown together whole hard boiled egg and ness, and Quilmes Beer Bat- to reach room temper- AVOCADOS FROM MEXICO
Chivito sandwich, I felt like clumps of grouped meat. tered Pickerel Tacos ($13),
Hermano’s Restaurant something was not right. When I asked the wait- which were very fresh.
& Wine Bar The Chivito ($14), a lay- ress about this, she told me The Black Gold ($10) Ingredients: • 50 ml (1/4 cup) white
179 Bannatyne Ave. ered Uruguayan sandwich the chef must have not lay- chocolate cake and the Pan- • 190 g (7 oz) smoked wine vinegar
947-5434 of smoked ham, steak, egg, ered it. Why not? queque ($9) were tough, turkey • 45 ml (3 tbsp) sugar
hermanos.ca and cheese was very tasty There were two saving unimaginative and not • 1/2 avocado, sliced • 5 ml (1 tsp) sea salt
Co-worker lunch: Yes but built as if a two-year old graces: Chicken Empanadas worth the money. Quick Pickles • 1 bay leaf
Price range: $6 - $61 made it. I have never had a ($13), which were outstand- This restaurant has the • 250 ml (1 cup) English • 2 allspice berries
Rating: 3 out of 5 sandwich that contained a ing in their chipotle good- flavour but no heart. cucumbers, thinly sliced • 5 ml (1 tsp) chili flakes
Casual eats: easy
steak sandwiches
Enjoy alongside some homemade oven fries or salad
THE CANADIAN PRESS H/O
Preparation:
1
Rub steaks with olive oil;
season with salt, pepper.
Let stand 30 mins.
2
In heavy skillet, melt but-
ter over medium-high
heat. Add onions and
thyme and cook 10 mins.
or until onions are gold-
en. Add red pepper, cook
1 min. Reduce heat to This recipe serves six.
medium low, stirring oc-
casionally, and cook 15
mins. or until peppers browned. Transfer to 180 until desired doneness.
are very tender. C (350 F) oven and cook 5 4
3 mins. for medium-rare or Slice buns in half length-
Heat ovenproof skillet until desired doneness. wise. Divide steak over
over medium-high heat, Let rest 10 mins. before each bottom bun and top
add steaks and sear on thinly slicing. Alternative- with onion mix. Sprinkle
both sides, about 2 mins. ly, grill over medium- with crumbled cheese.
per side or until well high heat, turning once, Cover with bun tops.THE
CANADIAN PRESS/
• 15 ml (1 tbsp) butter HOMEGROWNONTARIO.CA/
Ingredients: • 2 large onions, sliced RECIPE WAS ADAPTED FOR
• 2 strip loin steaks, • 10 ml (2 tsp) chopped METRO NEWS BY EMILY
trimmed (about 250 g/8 oz fresh thyme RICHARDS, A PROFESSIONAL
each) • 1 red bell pepper, sliced HOME ECONOMIST,
• 10 ml (2 tsp) olive oil • 6 crusty buns COOKBOOK AUTHOR AND
• 2 ml (1/2 tsp) each salt • 75 g (3 oz) crumbled blue CELEBRITY TV CHEF. FOR
and cracked black pepper cheese or Brie MORE, VISIT EMILYRICHARD-
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